Either the first (a warning to shirts and shoes that they must be in shabby shape to get service). Or else a warning that, while all other articles of clothing are completely optional, customers must be wearing a shirt and a pair of shoes. I.e., it's a laid back atmosphere, but they wouldn't want to be sued for crushed toes or burns about the torso.

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."Anonymous

Few things are as appetizing at the Waffle House as the sight of 350-lb Bubba with rolls of exposed tummy fat spilling out from under his regulation, but regrettably somewhat short, wife-beater.

"Waitress, could you bring me another order of lard?"

-- PW

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"

Palewriter wrote:Few things are as appetizing at the Waffle House as the sight of 350-lb Bubba with rolls of exposed tummy fat spilling out from under his regulation, but regrettably somewhat short, wife-beater.

"Waitress, could you bring me another order of lard?"

-- PW

I had an entertaining debate with my dad on a similar topic, many years ago. He was appalled by a news report covering (so to speak) some feminists challenging their local obscenity laws vis-a-vis who could appear in public sans the abovementioned shirt. Although Europe seems to be gamely soldiering on despite its lax morals, my dad was spared the sight of free-ranging, unfettered US females in his lifetime. If only my own retinas were not permanently scarred by frequent exposure to those males proudly baring gynecomastia and beer bellies.

Gailr I agree these little boys with no muscle no chest hair need to keep their shirts on, I just want to laugh when they strut their *stuff* lol and see also how that no shirt no shoes thing worked

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - No shirt, no service? What about no clothes at all? A couple that began squabbling in a motel room Friday morning carried their dispute over to an adjacent Waffle House restaurant in the nude, police said.

The woman, who was not identified, told officers she was staying in a room with Larry Boyd when he took a hit of cocaine, started trashing their room and choked her.

She ran in the buff to the nearby restaurant and locked herself in the bathroom. Boyd, also naked, followed her into the restaurant and then fled in a car.

mark the-streak-[NOT] Bailey

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Make the most of it...kb

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - No shirt, no service? What about no clothes at all? A couple that began squabbling in a motel room Friday morning carried their dispute over to an adjacent Waffle House restaurant in the nude, police said.

The woman, who was not identified, told officers she was staying in a room with Larry Boyd when he took a hit of cocaine, started trashing their room and choked her.

She ran in the buff to the nearby restaurant and locked herself in the bathroom. Boyd, also naked, followed her into the restaurant and then fled in a car.

mark the-streak-[NOT] Bailey

Just another normal day in Nashville. Or, Waffle House.
Quite sad, though. I didn't know the former basketball player had a cocaine problem...